Terret.



G. H. KLEVEN.

TERRET.

APPLICATION FILED NOV.10, 1913.

1,100,576, Patented June 16,191 L COLUMBIA PLANOORAPH COUWASHINOTDNI D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CARL H. KILElVEN, OF SUMMIT, SOUTH DAKOTA.

TERRET.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CARL H. KLEVEN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Summit, in the county of Roberts and State of South Dakota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Terrets, of which the following is a specification. 1

The present invention relates to improve ments in harness terrets, the object in view being to provide a simple article of this character which will permit the insertion of a driving rein thereinto at any point in its length and at right angles to the normal position of such driving rein so as to prevent accidental displacement of the rein from the terret.

It is further comprehended by my invention to provide guide members for the rein which guard against the accidental catching of a buckle on the driving rein in movement of said rein back and forth through the terret in the use of the harness on which it is disposed. As will be clear to those skilled in the art to which this device refers, the catching of a buckle in the manner above described is dangerous when driving a fractious horse, and my invention has been designed primarily to prevent possibility of such accidents as well as to provide a simple article of the nature hereinbefore described to accomplish this purpose.

With the above and other objects in view, this invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts all as hereinafter more fully described, claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure l is a front elevation of a terret constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same; and Fig. 3 is a top plan view thereof.

Throughout the following detail description, and on the several figures of the drawings, similar parts are referred to by like reference characters.

Specifically describing the device, and referring to the drawing, the numeral 1 designates the screw shank of my terret by means of which the same is secured to the harness saddle or other part where a terret is desired.

The numeral 2 indicates the base or horizontal portion of the terret which has extending from each of its ends peculiarly shaped arms 3 and 4. Describing one Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 10, 1913.

Patented June 16, 1914.

Serial No. 800,224.

of these arms 3, the same consists of the side member 3 extending upwardly from one end of the base 2, the horizontal portion 3 bent at right angles to the side member 3 and the terminal member 3 bent at angles to the horizontal portion 3", said terminal portion 3 extending downwardly toward the opposite end of the base to that hereinbefore described. The arm 4 is of exactly the same form and description as the arm 3 excepting that it extends from the opposite end of the base 2. As shown in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawing, each of the arms 3 and 4: are bent laterally at the horizontal portion so that the terminal portion of each arm is spaced from the contiguous side member of its opposing arm. This'bending of the arms forms side openings for the terret designated by the numerals 5 and 6 so that a harness rein may be inserted by passing the same downwardly between the arm terminals, which insertion of the rein is at substantially right angles to the normal position of the rein in the use of the same when driving.

The side member 3 of the arm 3 and side member 4 of the arm 4 are in the same vertical plane as the base of the terret 2, while the free terminal side members 3 and P are in different vertical planes at opposite sides of the base 2. In the frame or eye thus formed by the U-shaped arms 3 and 4 is disposed a pair of guard rollers 7 and 8, the roller 7 being journaled at its lower end in the base 2 and at its upper end in the horizontal portion 4 of the arm 4-, While the roller 8 is journaled in the base 2 at one end and the horizontal portion 3 of the arm 3. These rollers 7 and 8 are arranged in spaced relation to each other so as to provide the opening 9, through which the barness rein normally passes in actual use, and it is obvious that the disposition of the opening 9 is at right angles to the entrance openings 5 and 6 between the arms 3 and 4. The rollers 7 and 8 are designed to guard against the contacting of the rein with the side members of the arms, thereby pre venting accidental catching of the rein or a buckle thereon as will be clearly apparent.

It is to be noted that the main and essenti al feature of my invention is the formation of the arms 3 and 4 which are of inverted U-shaped forms, which form not only permits of the proper disposition of the guide or guard rollers 7 and 8 but form an interlocking arrangement to prevent displacement of the rein when once the same has been inserted into the terret.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim as new is:

1. A terret comprising a horizontal base having U-shaped arms extending from opposite ends thereof, each arm comprising a free terminal side member bent out of alinement with its opposing side member to form receiving openings at opposite sides of the terret, and guiding means interposed between each of said arms and the base member whereby to prevent contact of a rein inserted into the terret with the side members of the arms.

2. A. terret comprising a horizontal base having U-shaped arms extending therefrom, each arm having a side member extending upwardly from the base in the same vertical plane, and a side member extending downwardly in a different vertical plane, the lastmentioned side members being disposed at opposite sides of the base so as to form a tortuous passage for the insertion of a rein into the terret, and guard members for said arms interposed between the same and the base in alinement with each other and the first mentioned side member of each arm.

A terret comprising a horizontal base having arms extending from opposite ends thereof, each arm comprising an upwardly extending portion, a portion bent at an angle therefrom and substantially horizon- CARL H. KLEVEN. Witnesses D. STEELE, SoRnN STEANSON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

' Washington,- D. G. 

